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Video: Twitter in Plain English

Once again Lee and Sachi LeFever have produced one of their excellent video introductions to new web technology. This time their topic is twitter. By the way, if you want to follow my updates on twitter, I’m @jmcgee.

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This 2.5 minute video is a result of feedback from [...]

New blog on IT organization issues

My old friend and former colleague, Vaughan Merlyn, started blogging a few months back, which I discovered  by way of other old friend and former colleague Espen Andersen. Vaughan’s blog is IT Organization Circa 2017. It’s an excellent source of insight into the particular challenges that face CIOs trying to make an impact on their [...]

ooVoo review courtesy of Scott Hanselman

The wonders of Internet serendipity. Scott Hanselman provides an excellent review of ooVoo, the video chat software that Allan Cox will be using next week. (See my earlier post on that tonight.) My ooVoo name is “jimmcgee”
ooVoo - Multi-person Video Chat comes to Windows
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I’m not sure of the relationship between ooVoo and the others, but [...]

A new thinker to become acquainted with and an invitation for next week

If you’ve got 30 minutes next week and are interested in ways you might become more effective, consider this invitation. It’s a chance to participate in an intimate video conference/chat with Allan Cox. Allan is the author of eight books on management and leadership including his most recent effort, Your Inner CEO: Unleash the Executive [...]

Quick mindmapping survey from Chuck Frey

Chuck Frey is running another of his periodic survey of mindmapping tools and features. If you’re a mindmapping fan, let Chuck know what you think.

Mind mapping software: What’s hot, what’s not

It’s time to have a little fun. A popular website is HotorNot.com, where visitors get to rate pictures of men and women on [...]

Free Physics Textbook: Motion Mountain

Courtesy of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools blog. Someday, I’d love to get time to go back and learn the physics and math that I once knew.

Motion MountainInspiring physics textbook

This is not your father’s physics textbook. It is the self-published 1,500-page (!!), still-unfinished physics textbook written and designed by your polymath genius uncle who dwells [...]

The To-and-Fro over 2.0: It's Rematch Time!

Well, Andy’s been sizing up his opponent for tomorrow’s rematch. I’ll do my best to keep it a clean match. That’s 11am Eastern Standard Time.
Tom Davenport and I debated Enterprise 2.0 last June as part of the 2007 Enterprise 2.0 conference. And we’re going to do it again this Friday at 11 [...]

Andrew McAfee and Tom Davenport webinar on viability of Enterprise 2.0

This should be a fun and illuminating interchange this Friday, the 11th. Both Andy and Tom have been paying attention to the realities of how enterprises do and don’t make effective use of new technologies for a long time.
I’ve agreed to moderate their discussion, which will likely consist of throwing in a new question or [...]

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A dozen papers you should read in the world of Enterprise 2.0

There are a variety of articles and papers that I continue to draw insight from and find myself recommending to others on a regular basis. I decided it would be a useful exercise to assemble them into one set of pointers, add a little bit of commentary, and make it available.
I limited myself to materials [...]

A new voice in the blogging firmament - Abbie Lundberg of CIO

The conversation about technology and organizations has been enriched with a new blog, Difference Engine, by my long-time friend and colleague, Abbie Lundberg. Of course, as Editor in Chief at CIO Magazine, we’ve been benefiting from her perspective and insight for years. Now, we’ll get it a bit less filtered and a bit more personal. [...]